Skate-fastening



Patented Feb.. 1.431888.

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SKATE PASTENING. y

(Np Model.) l' l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

EVERETT H. BARNEY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.,377,734, dated February14, 1888.

Application filed December 1, 1887. Serial No. 256,597. (No model.) I

To all whom #may concern.'

Be it known that I, EVERETT H. BARNEY, a

vcitizen of the United States, residing at Springrear end of askate-runner and a longitudinal section of the heel-plate and of theheel-button thereof embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a transversesection of the runner and the heel-plate on the line x x, Fig. l, (thewhole width of said plate being shown,) and a side elevation of theheel-button. Fig. 3 is aplan view of the heel-plate, and Fig. 4 a likeview of a heel-button plate used in connection with said button. Fig. 5is a side elevation illustrating a modified construction ofheel-fastening adapted to be substituted lforv the heelbutton. w

In the drawings, 3l indicates the rear end of a skaterunner,which ismade preferably of malleable metal, and on which is the rear heelplatestandard, 3, having two riveting-studs, x as, formed on the end thereof.

The heel-plate is made, preferably,ofsheet metal (butmay be east) toprovide for manufacturing the same economically by punching, and has thelongitudinal slot o formed centrally therein, of -suitable length toreceive said two rivetingstuds, x w, on the standard 3 when theheel-plate is placed thereon, as shown in Fig. 1, and in the oppositeborders of said slot are formed the short lateral slots w, formingtogether an aperture in the heelplate of suitable lengthv to permit saidplate to be placed on the standard 3 after the heel button or fastening4 has been placed thereon, and to allow said plate to receive that partof said button between its shoulders alj ust below the neck thereof, asclearly shown in Fig. 2.v Said heel button or fastening 4 is also con-5ofstructed, preferably, from sheet metal by punching it to the formshown in Figs. l and 2, whereby is formed the head 5 thereon, connectedby a neck to a bifurcated body,D, l

whereby the slot d is formed. therein, and in the upper opposite edgesof which are formed the shoulders a a. Saidslotd is of such width astopermit the button to be placed on the end of the standard 3 in -theposition shown in Fig.1, and having been so placed, it is there rigidlysecured by placing the heel-plate 6 on said standard, as described, andengaging with the shoulders a of said button, and then riveting the endsof the studs ma, against the up- Y per side of said plate, therebyproducing a strong, durable, and economical construction, andparticularly the latter, for the parts are or may be all assembled inoperative position,"

just as they are punched from the sheet metal, Without finishing whenmaking a low-.priced skate.

, In using a button having a head of the form lsubstantially of the head5 a button-plate, 7,

Fig. 4, is screwed to the heel of the shoe, having a central ovalshapedopening in it to receive said head,which, being afterward turned by themovement of the skate under lthe'shoe,

"becomes thereby engaged with said plate.

Fi g.' 5 illustrates a heel-fastening constructed in every respect likesaid button D, excepting that instead of the head 5 of the latter it`has the pointed screw e. By using said lastnamed fastening, which issecured to the runnerstandard in the same manner as is the button D, thevbutton-plate 7 is dispensed with, for

the screw e isscrewed directly into the heel of 8 5 body in which is aslot to receive the end of said standard, and shouldersa in its oppositeedges, and a projecting 'part above saidbody for engagement with theheel of a shoe, anda heel-plate riveted tol said standard and slottedcentrally to permit said heel-fastening to extend through it, andengaging with the shoul-l ders in said fastening, substantially as setVforth. 4. e

' v EVERETT H. BARNEY.

Witnesses: i f

H. A. CHAPIN, v G. M. CHAMBERLAIN.

